Three Letters of William of Thetford, O.P.

K. W. Humphreys

doi:10.1017/S0022046900069955

Three Letters of William of Thetford, O.P.

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K. W. Humphreys

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Marginalia in medieval theological manuscripts are rarely worth investigating further but Merton College, Oxford MS. L. i. 14 (Coxe 132), ‘Peter of Poitiers on the Sentences’ followed by Simon of Tournai's Summa in sacram paginam has several most important drafts of letters. The manuscript which was written early in the thirteenth century has at fos. 109r, 110r and 113r in a cursive hand of the second half of the second quarter of the thirteenth century entries almost certainly made by William of Thetford, an early prior of the Oxford house of the Friars Preachers.

Type: Bibliographical Notes
Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , October 1954 , pp. 201 - 204

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900069955 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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^{page 201 note 1} My attention was drawn to these letters by Rev. D. W. Callus, o.p. and by Dr. R. W. Hunt, Keeper of Western MSS., Bodleian Library, Oxford, to whom I am greatly indebted.

^{page 201 note 2} Salter, H. E., Oxford Balliol Deeds (Oxford Hist. Soc), Oxford 1913, 102Google Scholar.

^{page 201 note 3} Herbert, J. A., Catalogue of Romances in the British Museum, London 1910, iii. 481Google Scholar.

^{page 201 note 4} Printed in Little, A. G. and Pelster, F., Oxford Theology and Theologians, c. A.D. 1282–1302 (Oxford Hist. Soc), Oxford 1934Google Scholar.

^{page 201 note 5} Powicke, F. M., Mediaeval Books of Merton College, Oxford 1931, 122Google Scholar.

^{page 201 note 6} Little and Pelster, op. cit., 282, note 2.

^{page 201 note 7} Chapotin, M. D., Histoire des Dominicains de la Province de France, Rouen 1898, 145Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 1} Roberti Grosseteste Epistolae, ed. Luard, H. R. (Rolls series), London 1861, nos XIV, XVGoogle Scholar.

^{page 202 note 2} Epistolae, XX. C; for dates see Thomson, S. H., The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, Cambridge 1940, 197 and 207Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 3} Thomas, of Eccleston, , De adventu fratrum minorum in Angliam, ed. Little, A. G., Manchester 1951, 46, note 1Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 4} Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, 1209–1235 (Cant, and York Soc), London 1907, ii. 28Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 5} Cartulary of Oseney Abbey (Oxford Hist. Soc), Oxford 1929–36, ii. 436Google Scholar.

^{page 202 note 6} Cartulary of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist (Oxford Hist. Soc), Oxford 1915–7, ii. 127Google Scholar and Cartulary of Eynsham (Oxford Hist. Soc), Oxford 1907–8, i. 138Google Scholar. There seems to be a short period between 1235 and 1239 when Adam was replaced by Roger of Weseham, cf. Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste (Cant, and York Soc), London 1913, 443Google Scholar, Cal. Pat. Rolls 22 Henry III, 233 and Cartulary of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, i. 394.

^{page 202 note 7} Book of Fees, 600.

^{page 202 note 8} Cal. Close Rolls, 1246, 389.

^{page 202 note 9} Inserted above the line.

^{page 202 note 10} bis crossed through.

^{page 202 note 11} et … quod added from the margin.

^{page 203 note 1} ut creditor crossed through and dignacione et mutacione added above the line.

^{page 203 note 2} et dignacione crossed through.

^{page 203 note 3} ipse added above the line.

^{page 203 note 4} ultra … vehementer added from the margin.

^{page 203 note 5} Oxon' crossed through.

^{page 203 note 6} quasi inserted above the line.

^{page 203 note 7} fere crossed through.

^{page 203 note 8} The following has been crossed through: Iam ordinaveram mittere ipsum ad conventum Norwici vestri causa in parte et ut cicius in libris ei provideretis; et ecce preces fratrum et consilia fratrum^a fecerunt me magis redire ad me ut satisfaciam desiderantibus ne^b separetur a nobis; donee solidetur in domino cogitetis ergo si placet prout cicius poteritis de providendo ei in libris et de solutione debitorum ne uterque nostrum quod absit a confidencia multa de nobis quod absit venerande pater.

^afratrum inserted above the line.

^but non crossed through and ne substituted above the line.

^{page 203 note 9} per gratiam dei inserted above the line.

^{page 203 note 10} cicius crossed through.

^{page 203 note 11} causa crossed through.

^{page 203 note 12} diu concepta crossed through.

^{page 203 note 13} ejus crossed through.

^{page 203 note 14} in hoc negotio inserted from the margin.

^{page 203 note 15} nos crossed through.

^{page 203 note 16} secundum dominum crossed through.

^{page 203 note 17} sed crossed through and verum inserted above the line.

^{page 203 note 18} orationes inserted above the line.

^{page 204 note 1} vos vel nos inserted, nee crossed through.

^{page 204 note 2} in suos inserted.

^{page 204 note 3} The following is erased: mittere eos ad manendum cum aliquo sed non mittere ad praedicandum tempore studii ita ut lectiones amittant volo ergo vos scire pater quod provincialis noster signaverit mihi per litteras quod satiscoactus concessit nobis fratrem H. usque ad festum apostolorum petri et pauli nisi interim infra illud^a tempus vobis in medico providetis.

^atempore crossed through.

^{page 204 note 4} pro dolor crossed through.

^{page 204 note 5} Northampton, founded in 1233 (Cal. Close Rolls, 1231–4, 276).

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